The Tour Kicks Off!
The band is flying up from Texas as we speak. Here's where and when you can catch us!
Remember Ian Faith, the ill-fated Spinal Tap manager who was fired after ordering those miniature Stonehenge monuments that were in danger of being crushed by a dwarf? Well, as of this moment, I can empathize with the guy. No, there haven’t been any major calamities in the planning of the Mega Mini Tour (TM), but even a small run of shows like this one turns out to be a major logistical gantlet.
Thankfully, it’s almost show time! So before we shift entirely into execution mode, I wanted to send out a quick note with the whole schedule.
Tomorrow, 10/1, we’ll play a free Happy Hour show at Young Ethel’s in Park Slope. Please note: we will go on no later than 5:30 and be completely done by 6:30!
On Wednesday, 10/2, we’ve booked an incredible night of music at the Bowery Electric in NYC. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. We’ll likely go on around 9:30, but you should definitely plan to come early and stay all night, because we’ll have solo sets from Lady Wail, Andrew Kirell, Friday Night Traditional, and Elyahreev Immortal.
On Thursday, 10/3, we’re playing a free show at a very cool venue in Jersey City called Pet Shop with two other great bands: Manager and Wizard Brain. Bands start at 8 pm and the whole thing will wrap by 11.
On Friday, 10/4, we play The Nail in Ardmore, PA (basically Philly). We’re playing with Unlucky Mammals, Smarty Pants, and Matt Homolka, and it should be a great night of music. It all kicks off around 7:30 and we’ll go on around 9. Cover is $10.
Finally, on Saturday, 10/5, we have an early show—4 pm!—at Transparent Clinch, the photographer Danny Clinch’s gallery in Asbury Park, New Jersey. There’s a suggested donation of $10.
So that’s everything! We hope to see you at one or more of these things!
Before signing off, I wanted to say thanks to Marc Schuster and his co-hosts, Bigbaldben and Quizboy, for including “Hopped Up” on their Bandcamping podcast (discussion starts at 38:00) and sharing such thoughtful reactions. In my mind, we were trying to capture a Crazy Horse sound, but it was super interesting to hear the other references they heard, and I especially enjoyed the discussion of Riley Rogers’s face-melting solo. (He’s playing lead at all these shows, so you’ll be able to experience his special powers in person!)
The outgoing, I guess you’d call it, guitar solo, that lasted half the song?… Most of the stuff I listen to, if it has a solo, it’s like one measure. And when I write my own, it’s like that. And the reason is, is because: How can you come up with so many variations under the same chord structure, but they did it, and it was great. I wasn’t bored. I was just, like, “Wow. How do they keep coming up with new riffs and stuff, and new solo, measure after measure after measure?” It’s just something I don’t get, I don’t understand, but I very much appreciate.
Thanks, guys! Glad you dig the tune! Hope we’ll all get to hang soon!